‗‗FACE OFF‗‗ Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte (The Gloves Are Off) [VIDEO HD]

[M Bison]

This will be a better fight than Klitschko - Fury.

That wouldn't be hard, the Floyd-Pac fight was better.

[stephenmc]

I think whyte has the beaten of AJ.
Whyte has slipped under the radar while people have jumped onto the AJ express and hype.
Whyte has a street mentality that can either go for him or against him.
i do believe he dosnt fear AJ one bit and genuinely dislikes him.
i think whyte has been overlooked alot and can shock alot of people on sat night.
"A skinny body builder" haha

[stephenmc]

After finishing watching this,
AJ is shook a bit by dillian i think,
i think its his house he has to watch if he wins haha
seems like whyte will send someone or himself to burn the place hahaha

[boxingfan1986]

agree with everything thats been said so far

dillian is just weird with the whole "lets take this outside, lets do this now, just me and you" act he's got going on. you're fighting next week you pleb

joshua is boring as fk. bores me to sleep listening to him

they're no tyson fury that's for sure

tyson can entertain without coming across like a hoodrat

[hugh grant]

Whyte has a small head...he's getting KOd.

Just what I was thinking and a thin neck, but shouldn't judge a book by its cover

The whole beef stems from Joshua talking negatively about Whyte to a reporter. Whyte got offended because they must have at least been friends of some sort if Joshua has borrowed his trousers to go clubbing one night n the past. That's why Whyte keeps calling him a fake because Joshua spoke badly to the press about him. Regardless of whether you like or dislike Whyte, it was actually Joshua who cast the first stone (other than Whyte beating him in the ams).

Where is that interview with AJ talking badly that might explain it better than Dillian can?
But Dillian was just a name to me, now he is a gangata with a name. But I was wondering what I lent him my trousers was all about? I didn't know they went partying together I thought they just fought each other as amatuers.

[FlatLine]

Yeah, actually Whyte's main problem with this is when Joshua was called out on what he said, he blamed the reporter instead of admitting what he said. Probably to keep his image of the nice guy rather than talking negatively about people. So Whyte said he's a coward for blaming someone else for what he said.

He is very media trained. I believe Whyte when he says Joshua is nothing like he shows.

I do think Joshua is somewhat different in real life to his media personality, but most people including and especially the guy who was interviewing them, Johnny Nelson, are very different in person to their media persona.

I've seen a few interviews with Johnny Nelson on IFL TV Youtube channel where he's swearing, joking about, chilling, and he's totally different to how he appears as a commentator/interviewer on Sky Sports (although he's good at his job no doubt).

I think you're right, Dillian doesn't understand why Joshua is presenting himself that way to the public, he just thinks he's "faking" when really he's trying to maximize his appeal and ultimately maximize his income, doing what a prizefighter is supposed to do I guess.

[- Ram Raid -]

Dillian's wrong here, I have known AJ for quite some time, we've hung out .Yes he isn't as...I dunno, I guess the word would be polished away from the cameras as he in front of the cameras BUT we're all different in professional environments i.e. I'm very different in lectures than I am with my mates. AJs just the same But he isn't "fake" as Dillian eluded too.

However, Dillian stole the show here. He was so damn funny, with his Jamaican twang and calling AJ for a street fight lol. I've really started to like him over the last few months.

I envision a time in the future when the British press turn on Joshua. Part of the issue for me is the national sentiment and media frenzy that entwined around Team GB's success during the London Olympics. Most of that was centred around the achievements of the female boxers which was read as being progressive for women. Female participation in the sport boomed after that. Nicola Adams and Natasha Jonas in particular set the tone as to what was expected of the whole squad in terms of conduct, back story and beaming smile, ever so appreciative, grateful personality.

But along with that came a level of slightly coy patronising condesention on the part of the press. "Didn't the girls do well!" The fact that they're boxers first and foremost became lost but the upside of that is that it made them more accessible and sellable to the sections of the British public that look down on boxing as largely a brutish pastime.

Luke Campbell, with the disarming features of a twelve year old paperboy readily fit into this emasculated soft lense vision that was being trained on the sport. Joshua seems to have done what was asked of him to fit in with that but dispite his best efforts has always looked like a square peg being forced into a round hole.

As long as he toes the line and jumps through hoops for the press he'll be tolerated. As soon as he doesn't those stories from his youth that they're sitting on will start to be written up as exposes. He doesn't strike me as the kind of man who suffers fools gladly. That doesn't bode well when dealing with the tabloid press.

On a side note, sometimes you have to wonder what goes through Johnny Nelson's head that prompts him to ask a young, physically powerful black man from the streets of London who his paymasters are trying to promote to the wider public as a PPV attraction whether he used to knock people out in the streets!?! . . He needed his arse handed to him for that.

[SN!PER]

Without his headgear and pillow gloves, Whyte is in for a rude awakening.

[Chrismart]

Anthony Joshua says security stopped a physical confrontation with Dillian Whyte

Anthony Joshua has admitted that he had to be separated from bitter rival Dillian Whyte as tensions boiled over during the 'Gloves Are Off'.

The feuding heavyweights came face-to-face on Sky Sports ahead of their eagerly awaited grudge fight on December 12, live on Sky Sports Box Office.

Joshua and Whyte could not contain their emotions as Johnny Nelson chaired an intense interview and security were forced to prevent a physical confrontation, bringing a dramatic halt to filming.

oshua told Sky Sports News HQ: "Quite intense. There couldn't be a part two, because I don't think all of it was aired out and the beef between me and Dillian - so there couldn't be a part two.

"But it was good, it got people interested and now they have got to tune into the fight to see what that's about."

"There is a fight when you have got to stay cool, calm and relaxed and then you have to sit across the table with someone that you don't really get along with and that's where you are really going to see that animosity and that atmosphere is going to be bad energy. There was bad energy in the air and that's what the 'Gloves Are Off' was about.

"I was expecting there to be a dust-up in the Sky Sports courtyard. Shout out to the security, they did a job and kept us apart. We did have a bit of a square off, a few words off camera as we were leaving. We had a few words to say to each other.

Asked who intervened, Joshua said: "Security and friends. Not majorly but just woah woah, be easy. You've got a fight scheduled and that's what you've got to focus on."

Promoter Eddie Hearn admitted that Joshua was stopped from having an altercation with Whyte, but expects him to keep his composure when the first bell rings.

"People ask if he lost his rag on Gloves Are Off. I think he was ready to fight but other than that I've not noticed any emotion in this camp - it's been the same as other camps," said Hearn.

"It's a dangerous fight as it is so to bring emotion into it would make it a very dangerous fight.

"It was heated. They had to be separated in the corridor afterwards. It was personal - this fight is personal. It was an intense environment, sitting so close for an hour. It was as close to boiling point as you're going to get."

Whyte has also shed light on the highly charged encounter with Joshua and believes a bad-tempered clash was inevitable.

He holds an amateur victory over Joshua and has suggested this defeat still irritates the Olympic gold medallist.

"We had a very good, heated conversation," Whyte told Sky Sports. "It was relaxed at times and at times it was heated.

"Clearly we don't like each other and when you put two men in a room that genuinely don't like each other, it's always going to get heated.

"Since we fought as amateurs in 2009, I've always been under his skin. If somebody had beaten me, they'd always be under my skin until I got revenge."

[boxingfan1986]

Joshua made one point that made sense. Dillian doesnt know what he's saying half the time.